Author: Laurel Osterkampen
ISBN: 1-933826-27-4

This is a story about a woman, Faith Emerson, who finds herself dumped by her
boyfriend of two years for her best friend. He friend Carolyn suggests that she
make a change and move to the “big city”. Faith decides that an adventure is
what she needs to shake up her life. Enter a case of clouded perception of
personalities, a screwball chain of events that is just farfetched enough to
make you believe it could really happen, a psychic ability that Faith feels in
her toes, a romance and our main character finding out she can stand on her own,
and you have what has become the romance novel of the twenty-first century.

Laurel Osterkamp gives each of her characters, from the main to the peripheral
characters that we might only see once, a well-rounded identity. Unfortunately
you do not see that much attention to detail the entire environment of a story
all that often.

To me, that just make the story more “real” and easier to get
lost in and what I consider the real joy of a book. Now some of the screwball
events were a little too much for me and the oblivion to the world around her
that Faith seemed to be in at all times was bit trying to me. As the reader you
could see things about to happen that Faith seemed totally oblivious to until
she was almost in over her head and she had to be rescued by the object of her
love/hate desire. Yet I suppose if you didn’t have that, then you wouldn’t have
forward progression of the story.

Osterkamp’s background as a comedy writer is readily apparent with the nice balance between the humor and the serious making his a good choice for a fun beach read. I believe it’s safe to assume that Osterkamp has many more stories to tell and I look forward to seeing her
evolution as an author.

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